How to Use shield volcano in a Sentence

shield volcano

noun
  • Ethiopia's Erta Ale is a shield volcano whose profile is large and low.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2016
  • Often these volcanoes are a type of long, sloping volcano called a shield volcano.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Kilauea is a shield volcano, built of lava spreading out in all directions from a central vent.
    — Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • The molten rock spewing from 19 fissures on the side of the shield volcano has already destroyed more than two dozen homes.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2018
  • This is unlike Kīlauea, a shield volcano at a hotspot, where lava flows are the dominant product.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2018
  • Hayli Gubbi is a shield volcano, like Hawaii’s Mauna Loa.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Kilauea, the volcano in Hawaii that is currently erupting, is a shield volcano.
    — Anna Rothschild, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
  • The western slope rises slowly toward the summit of Ok, a low shield volcano shrouded in mist.
    — Lacy M. Johnson, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Mauna Kea, a shield volcano in Hawaii, is technically the world's tallest mountain from base to peak.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Located on the big island of Hawai'i, the massive shield volcano hasn't been active in 38 years.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Types of volcanoes Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, built up over thousands of years through lava eruptions.
    — Rachel Beane, The Conversation, 1 May 2023
  • This allows for different types of eruptions, with shield volcanoes being much less violent.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018
  • The peninsula is all that remains of a massive shield volcano formed around a million years ago when the Hawaiian Islands were still young.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • Halla is a shield volcano (like Hawaii's Kilauea) where lava flows have built an enormous, low, broad volcanic edifice.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2014
  • Kīlauea, a 4,091-foot-tall shield volcano, is located on the southeastern side of the island of Hawai’i.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
  • Currently, a small submarine shield volcano named Loihi lurks off the southeastern coast of Hawai'i.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2016
  • The park's center is a massive shield volcano, which covers a great portion of the island of Maui, and also includes abundant waterfalls and rain forests.
    — Giovanna Caravetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Kilauea, however, is a shield volcano, where basaltic lava flows almost continuously out of a summit crater and other vents, building a flat dome.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
  • That’s roughly double the volume of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the previous record-holder for largest shield volcano on the planet.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Kilauea is a shield volcano with lava that is relatively fluid, so when trapped gas expands and bursts, the resulting eruptions are typically not as deadly.
    — Denise Chow /, NBC News, 5 June 2018
  • Every nine months, on average, Réunion’s shield volcano, Piton de la Fournaise, puts on an amazing show of pyrotechnics.
    — Katie Knorovsky, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
  • This tropical paradise consists of a massive shield volcano, which covers a great portion of the island of Maui, and also includes abundant waterfalls and rain forests.
    — Giovanna Caravetta, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike many of the steep-sided volcanoes along the edge of the Pacific Rim, Kilauea is a shield volcano with long, gradually sloping sides.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 6 May 2018
  • Scientists have identified the world’s largest shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, which is barely visible above the waters of the Pacific.
    — Fox News, 15 May 2020
  • This simmering cauldron atop one of the five shield volcanoes that form the Big Island of Hawaii has inspired ritual and reverence for generations.
    — George W. Stone, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • No casualties reported In the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia lies the shield volcano, Hayli Gubbi.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Ilchulbong is a scenic wonder, but the real challenge lies in the very center of the island, the shield volcano of Hallasan—Korea's tallest mountain—around which an extraordinary national park has been built.
    — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Whereas Kilauea, a shield volcano, is characterized by large globs of slow-moving lava inching out of fissures, Fuego, a stratovolcano, is prone to spewing fast-moving flows of ash, lava, and mud.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 4 June 2018
  • In a separate project, scientists recently identified the world’s largest shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, which is barely visible above the waters of the Pacific.
    — Fox News, 16 June 2020
  • Drone plans developed by NASA suggest the space agency is particularly interested in Arsia Mons, a shield volcano in Mars' Tharsis region, which includes the largest volcanoes in the solar system, such as Olympus Mons — almost three times as high as Mount Everest.
    — Tom Brown, Space.com, 25 May 2026

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